SAN JOSE, Calif. – SK Telecom Americas aims to open a small incubator in Silicon Valley as early as March. It will provide a home with servi ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip and solar equipment vendor Applied Materials Wednesday (Feb. 13) posted quarterly sales that declined on both a sequentia ...
We are used to the idea that tablet computers and smartphones are driving semiconductor sales right now, but here is another statistic to pu ...
LONDON – Tower Semiconductor Ltd., the specialty foundry that trades as TowerJazz, is forecasting a sharp drop in revenue in the first quart ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Ericsson plans to demo at Mobile World Congress this month features of LTE-Advanced, including a prototype 8x8 MIMO anten ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A few years ago, executives from companies like Quanta wouldn't give interviews. They lived in the shadows of customer ...
NEW YORK--Intel Corp’s naked ambition to move into the American living room is hardly a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention. But ...
Word of layoffs is depressing and heart-wrenching, especially so when it takes place on the massive scale that hit workers at Renesas Electr ...
LONDON – Ten product categories, led by tablet processors and mobile phone application processors, are going to enjoy a growth rate of 6 per ...
Interested in high-speed, high quality communications at the chip, board and system level? If so here are ten reasons to come to Santa Clara ...
Is Young Sohn of Samsung Electronics the best connected executive in semiconductors?Young Sohn is president and chief strategy officer of Sa ...
NEW YORK–Twenty years ago, imaging/vision was a subject matter that only camera manufacturers cared about.Today, imaging has become a decide ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – IBM sketched out its visions of the fab future at the recent Common Platform Technology Forum, the chip alliance of IB ...
When it comes to memory, today’s computing platforms and embedded applications demand more: more capacity, more speed, and more efficiency. ...
TOKYO – I trust I am not alone wanting to know what brought the reversal of fortunes to Japan’s economy, which looked pretty much invincible ...
Silicon Valley event promotes women in engineering
John Moor from the U.K. National Microelectronics Institute has raised some interesting points on the subject of startups over in the commen ...
LONDON – Sales jumped 37 percent year-on-year at leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in January. TSMC (Hsinchu, Taiw ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--It's decision time for a handful of companies aiming to bring silicon photonics to the market to reduce the costs of 10 ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc. plans to place NAND flash along with DRAM on memory modules that ride the DDR4 ...
PORTLAND, Ore.--The e-readers of the future could use plasmonic resonator arrays as wide field-of-view color filters for reflected light, ac ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Intel’s first microserver processor is less power efficient than its existing Xeon chips, leaving a significant opportu ...
LONDON – Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. and Panasonic Corp. have announced that they have agreed in principle to merge their system LSI businesses to ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Intel’s first microserver processor is less power efficient than its existing Xeon chips, leaving a significant opportu ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--A new class of short reach 10 Gbit/second Ethernet chips is on way, opening the door to smaller, cheaper, lower power s ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Media tablets like Apple Inc.'s iPad and its competitors accounted for one in three personal computer shipments in the fourth ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Globalfoundries and Samsung are in a dead heat to get their first 14 nm production wafers out before the end of the ye ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The semiconductor industry will contract by 0.5 percent in 2013, but despite the squeeze and some consolidation the lo ...
Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc has gained two additional licensees for big-little approach to multiprocessing bri ...
SAN FRANCISCO--PC maker Dell Inc. will become a private company under a leveraged buyout deal worth about $24.4 billion, the company said Tu ...
LONDON – Warren East, CEO of processor IP licensor ARM, says the company stands ready to help STMicroelectronics make a success of its fully ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.–Redpine Signals Inc. is sampling a device that blends support for the latest Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Zigbee standards. It is g ...
PORTLAND, Ore.--A team of researchers from IBM and Dow Corning Electronics is claiming a breakthrough that could enable silicone to supplant ...
Yoshida in Japan: Fujitsu-Panasonic SoC JV deal makes no sense
MENLO PARK, Calif.--The desert climate for semiconductor startups saw a new cloud on its horizon as Samsung announced plans to increase fund ...
The view from Digital Hollywood looks pretty grim to me. 3-D TV was a disappointment, 4K TV (aka Ultra HDTV) is pretty much a useless extrav ...
STMicroelectronics NV, Europe's largest and broadest chip company continues to suffer under the burden of its wireless joint venture with Er ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Cisco Systems announced its first 40 Gbit/second Fibre Channel over Ethernet switch, a 96-port system packing two novel 4 ...
LONDON – The three-month average for global chip sales was $24.74 billion in December, down 3 percent from $25.51 billion in November a numb ...
DesignCon; Nvidia to discuss challenges of chip design
Fujitsu, Panasonic reportedly close to merging chip units
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Bob Metcalfe is trying to avert the next big war in the communications industry. Specifically, he is trying to get two c ...
PORTLAND, Ore.--Farm animals may be the next big thing for MEMS sensors, now that international bovine-gear maker Dairymaster is hawking a s ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The DesignCon 2013 votes are in and the eyes have it. Copper traces can handle 40 and even 56 Gbits/second, according ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Fabless chip giant Qualcomm Inc. Wednesday (Jan. 30) raised its sales target for the fiscal year after reporting record quart ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The first boards to carry 25 Gbit/second serial signals could emerge from the factory this year, but they won’t be eas ...
PORTLAND, Ore.--IBM is installing a more general-purpose version of its artificially intelligent Watson cluster supercomputer at the Renssel ...
Yoshida in Madison: BlackBerry in 'emerging markets'?
Atmel, Exegin to offer wireless smart grid solutions
Energy Micro to showcase cool customer apps at embedded world
LONDON – The global semiconductor market is set to enjoy long-term growth with a compound annual growth rate of 9 percent over the period 20 ...
Freescale attacks Cavium with security coprocessors
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Ultra low power microcontrollers will get a new yard stick by this fall from the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consort ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The next generation of engineers wants more role models, a society more tolerant of female professionals and all the m ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Cultural complacency and "uncomplaining"engineers are stunting EDA tool investment and preventing ICcompanies ...
MADISON, Wis. -- Ian Chen, executive vice president of software licensor Sensor Platforms, abruptly left the company last week. A brief c ...
London Calling: Flash Forward to make the most miniaturized chips?
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The pizza, trail mix and sodas flowed freely as nearly 100 engineers joined a hardware hackathon at the Open Compute ...
London Calling: Flash Forward to make the most miniaturized chips?
MADISON, Wis.– If you want to know the global TV trends in 2013, look no further than what MediaTek has up its sleeve. The bellwether of the ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Cisco Systems is prototyping silicon photonics using 2.5-D silicon interposers, according to a senior engineering exec ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Broadcom Corp., which already boasts that 99.98 percent of all data traffic crosses one of its chips, rolled out Monday (Jan. ...
LONDON – Qualcomm Technology Inc. has joined the core CMOS R&D collaborative research program of nanoelectronics research institute I ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium has gathered a database comparing processor performance of some 1,500 A ...
LONDON – The Chinese market for ICs is set to experience a compound annual growth rate of 13 percent over the period 2012 to 2017, five perc ...
LONDON – Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (WXIC), a maker of NOR flash memories on 300-mm wafers, has appointed Simon Yang as ...
Kotura preps fab deal amid silicon photonics surge
Cisco sells Linksys to Belkin, ending home networking run
LONDON – The universities of Cambridge and Manchester are to both host graphene research centers as the U.K. looks to spend more than £ ...
London Calling: Don't trust Nokia's signs of recovery
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Add Qualcomm to the list of ARM server SoC designers. The smartphone chip designer is advertising at least three software ...
LONDON – Semiconductor revenue is likely to decline sequentially by 3 percent in the first quarter of 2013 because chip inventory held by se ...
Amazon, Apple, Google or Netflix could reshape the market for high def movies and TV shows over the Internet by adopting the newly minted HE ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.--Following months of declining orders and shipments, the semiconductor equipment market turned around inDecember, with both ...
Despite my decades of faithful attendance at International CES, it strikes me odd in recent years to see the abundance of white goods--home ...
LONDON – If past is prologue, then a look at the disruptive technology moves of 2012 may give us some sense of what the new year will bring. ...
LONDON – I have always been as interested in the smaller companies that are starting out on their journeys as I am in the semiconductor indu ...
Apple's stock nosedives after forecasted sales decline
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. plans to stop supplying PC motherboards, with plans to gradually ramp down the business over the next three years, ...
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The connector market is forecast to rebound from a 2.6 downturn in 2012 to a 4.2 percent uptick this year, according to ...
Yoshida in China: Five reminders when working at US-Sino firm
LONDON – The global chip market will grow by 8 percent in 2013, as long as the major economic regions can avoid recession and other negative ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Rory Read, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), said Tuesday (Jan. 22) that the company continues to make p ...
Agilent Technologies Inc. launched the N6465A test application for embedded multimedia card (eMMC) compliance test in response to a new vers ...
787 Dreamliner investigation probes battery-charging electronics
Developers can now give their TI microcontroller (MCU) LaunchPad Evaluation Kits an extra boost – and showcase it at one of the largest tech ...
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The VITA trade association kicked off an effort to set standards for opto-electronic components suitable for its milita ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Chelsio Communications Inc. announced Terminator 5, its first Ethernet controller supporting data rates up to 40 Gbits/se ...
NEW YORK – While the debate over divergent wired and wireless home networking schemes and standards rages on, one wireless application stood ...
Electronics, photovoltaics pioneer Eric Lidow dies at 100
Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC wins Microprocessor Report Analyst Choice Award
LONDON – Intel has presented Professor Stephen Hawking with a birthday gift, a 300-mm wafer with the message "Happy Birthday Stephen Ha ...
London Calling: Are ARM's big-little days numbered?
LONDON – STMicroelectronics is in discussions with Globalfoundries Inc. on a transfer of fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) manufac ...
SAN FRANCISCO--The car is the next frontier in consumer electronics, going from mode of transportation to personalized mobile information hu ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – At the same event where Facebook managers opened the door for ARM server SoCs in the data center, they also made it cl ...
LONDON – Imprint lithography firm Molecular Imprints Inc. (Austin, Texas) has announced that one of its machines being used by a semiconduct ...
Colin Holland, a longtime electronics-industry journalist who also played a leading role in organizing the technical programs of several hig ...
Slideshow: Facebook shows Intel 100GE, ARM servers
SAN FRANCISCO—Executives from Intel Corp. said Thursday (Jan. 17) they expect the company to grow sales modestly in 2013 as the company bene ...